Orange Spiced Almond Muffins
So I have a thing.
A food love thing.
A I love you and you and you together thing. The thing is orange + almond + all spice make a really good thing. Totally loveable great thing. Ok, enough now with the thing.
These spiced orange almond muffins really bring a pow wow to breakfasts. Plus they tick the healthy muffins box all right – with very little margarine and very little sugar. So you can eat one or three with no guilt whatsoever.
The hardest thing in making this muffin recipe – zesting the oranges. But look at it this way, zesting is therapeutic and burns off some calories making these breakfast muffins even healthier.
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Orange Spiced Almond Muffins
Ingredients
- 75 g (1/3 cup) butter
- 250 g (2 cups) self-raising flour
- 2 tbsp ground almonds
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1-2 tsp all spice
- 75 g (1/3 cup) caster sugar
- Zest of 2 oranges
- 100 ml (1/3 cup + 2 tsp) orange juice
- 100 ml (1/3 cup + 2 tsp) milk
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to fan assisted 180C / 200C / 400F / gas 6.
- Line a 12 cup muffin tray.
- Melt the butter and set aside to cool.
- Combine the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
- Combine the orange juice and milk in another bowl and mix in the egg and cooled melted butter.
- Add the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until barely combined. Note the batter will be thick and lumpy.
- Spoon the muffin batter equally into the muffin cases and bake for 20 minutes.
Love the idea of these for breakfast but they’d also make a fantastic teatime treat too!
We had these afterwards lol!
Glad to have inspired you.
I made this on Saturday and it was lovely! I adore salads and as soon as the sun comes out I live off salads! Thank you for sharing!
Feeling the love! simply adore almonds and orange zest in pretty much anything and these look scrumptious
Let’s start an orange appreciation club.
Those look so scrumptious. I wish I had some for breakfast!
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So scrummy Bintu, I’d love one (or three!) for my breakie please 🙂
Janie x
Come over, I will make you some.
They look very tasty indeed, and the perfect breakfast munch. Pinned to my breakie board for future inspiration!
Thanks Lou, much appreciated.
They look wonderful. What a great start to the day.
They are.
I love orange with the spices together. Your muffin looks very moist and soft. Perfect to enjoy for breakfast.
:). I love the name of your blog. Going to go check it out.
As always a beautiful bake from your pantry Bintu and such a fun post !
Thanks Manjiri
They look lovely – and orangey spicy muffins sound delish!
Thanks Fiona, These are really going to be a new fav snack.
I love all spice, I bet these are really delicious. I use a micro plane to zest, it’s really sharp and makes very quick work of it. GG
I need to use all spice a lot more.
Like the sound of orange and allspice together, not sure I’ve tried that combination. Nice pictures.
Been practising with my new lens.
I have almond love, but don’t think I’ve tried orange and almond, but I will be now! Lovely looking muffins.
It is a good combo.
Oh, those muffins look delicious!
I am just about to have one for breakfast A.
How pretty – lovely sunny flavours and colours!
🙂
These look delicious and I adore the click.
They really are a lovely breakfast food.
These orange spiced muffins look gloriously good. It would make a delicious treat away from my usual porridge with honey and walnuts.
Shall we have a breakfast swap?
BEAUTIFUL baking as usual and such an innovative recipe! Karen
Thanks Karen. Currently adding all spice to everything I can.
Yes please, these look super delicious! I’m craving sweets this morning desperately!
Come over I will save you some.